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House of Tigers Exhibition: Private View

What a hectic/manic week! On Monday night I dropped off my work at A-side B-side Gallery– Hackney Downs Studios– for the House of Tigers exhibition; leaving Adam, who curated the show, and a few of this other friends to paint the walls (sorry folks!).

Anyway, Thursday’s Private View was amazing! The turn out was incredible and the whole place was buzzing with people admiring the artworks and getting to talk to the other 30 plus artists.

My work for the show: Tiger in the Night

Tiger In The Night

Adam and his friends did a fantastic job of curating the show; everyone’s work really complimented one another as the artworks were all spread out across the space rather than your typical linear layout (see below).

June and I posing next to her artwork!

My friend June Sees was also part of the show and here we both are standing next to her beautiful artwork of a sleeping tiger and rabbit with a lovely bamboo frame.

I had a wonderful evening talking to friends, getting to know the other artists and then we headed off to the pub for a burger. And more beer.

Pretty good night indeed!

House of Tigers will be running until Tuesday 27th October.

ByJo Cheung

October 24, 2015

Exhibitions, Illustration, London

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Covet Pop-Up Exhibition Review

Evening all! Hope your week has been filled with lovely things to see and do. I was meant to blog about ‘Covet’ as it was going, however, running a shop takes so much time and preparation that I never managed to do it! Side note about The Hackney Shop: it’s a pop-up retail space available for Hackney residents (or if you work there) and the whole concept behind it is giving creatives the opportunity to showcase their work for free. Yes, for free. As getting any kind of space is so cut-throat and expensive to the eye balls, The Hackney Shop is a not for profit enterprise that allows constant creativity to evolve every week. Also, bringing in local benefits to the community too.

Myself, The Illusive Eye (Chrissy Wallace) and Bilton Conceptual Design (Cris Cold) had the space for a week and whilst we were there, we were opening and closing the shop from 10 until 5pm every day. As the week went on we had a mix of people visiting the shop and, although it was generally quiet in the mornings, there was a fair stream of people coming in during the weekend.

I had a great week chatting to Chrissy about art, dogs, drinking beer and drinking even more beer as the week went on…!

ByJo Cheung

October 16, 2015

Exhibitions, Illustration, London

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House of Tigers Exhibition

This month I’ve been pretty busy with work and so it’s been great to be able to do shows just to break things up a little bit.

I’m part of ‘House of Tigers’ exhibition at A-Side B-Side Gallery! Super stoked to be part of an awesome show for a great cause, Save Wild Tigers, as well.

The private view will be on Thursday 22nd October and the show will run from the 22nd until the 27th.

More about the show:

House of Tigers- A group exhibition

Curated by Adam Bartlett

Public View: Thursday 22nd October 6-9.30pm

Show Dates: 23-10-2015 – 26-10-2015

A-side B-side Gallery is pleased to present, ‘House of Tigers’ an exhibition curated by Adam Bartlett:

“The show came about through my love of tigers and painting them. I thought it would be great to raise some money for our stripy friends, curate my first show and provide a platform for many artists who don’t get to show their work out much due to full time jobs etc. Kind of bringing everyone great and small together, the emphasis is on fun with this show and getting involved in any way you can.”

Adam Bartlett | Ian Bartlett | Alexandra Miller | Amber Sinclair-Ray | Archie Proudfoot | Ben Wilson |Catherine Hall | Clare Wilson | Dan Feit | Ed Coy | Ellie Tate | Fabi Santiago | Géraldine Buckland | Ivy Mei | Jenni Desmond | Jo Cheung | Julie Ash | June Sees | Kevin Hope | Laura Gee | Lewis Campbell |Loui Stokoe | Lyle Saunders | Maxwell Paternoster | Mike West | Novemto Komo | Steph Parr | Steven Quinn | Xander Coy | Laura Hughes | Chay Morris

20% of all sales will go to savewildtigers.org

ByJo Cheung

October 4, 2015

Exhibitions, Illustration, London

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The Story So Far Update

Double whammy of exhibitions this month and the previous month! Having finished ‘Into the Sun’ exhibition, ‘The Story So Far’ followed on from it pretty much the following day! Last night I went by to pick up my work and I can’t believe it’s over!

Here’s a bit of a blurb about my piece for the exhibition:

My work for the exhibition explores an ancient folklore that resonates with some East Asian countries, all of which sees the fox spirit as cunning, conniving, and a magical creature that has the power to trick the human mind whilst being able to shape shift into a human form.

I was particular drawn to the similarities that the motif transcends from one culture to another. I wanted to depict the fox spirit as something almost quite majestic, alluring, and mythical.

I didn’t attend the private view as I was working late that evening- sad face here- but I have asked the organisers if I could include some photos from the night. Here are a few photos of the Private View, courtesy of ‘The Story So Far’ Facebook group:

My ‘Fox Spirit’ piece was also featured in the press for the show!

‘Fox Spirit’ will be up for sale in my Etsy shop pretty soon so I’ll do a shout out when the listing is up.

ByJo Cheung

July 22, 2015

Exhibitions, Illustration, London

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Into The Sun Exhibition Update

Hello! I hope you’ve all been enjoying the sun and the glorious weather that we’ve been having over the past couple of days. I’ve had a rather hectic few days what with the run up to the show and another show I’m taking part in, which starts on the 1st July at W3 Gallery in Acton (more on that later in the week).

I have to say that the group exhibition ‘Into The Sun’ at A-side B-side Gallery has been really successful especially the private view. Sadly, I didn’t take any photos that night but I have managed to take some photos today when I was invigilating the show.

Firstly, here are my pieces for the show: ‘Luna’ and ‘Sol’.

Luna

Sol

And here they both are in situ.

My work for the exhibtion.

Augustin’s work.

Adam Bartlett

Ivy Mei (left) and Adam Bartlett (right)

Kwok Pui Sai (left) and Paul Shinn (right)

Whilst I was invigilating, I got the chance to speak to people about the show and my work as well. It was great to be able to connect with others about my interpretation of the theme itself. I think Ivy has done a fantastic job on curating the show and putting together the show so I’d just like to say a big fat thank you to Ivy for all of her hard work! I love the space too; light, airy and it’s not too big and not too small either.

The show is running until Tuesday 30th so get yourselves down to the gallery if you’ve still not seen it!

ByJo Cheung

June 28, 2015

Exhibitions, Illustration, London

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